Sarah's review
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
10.19.07
Listening to this on another digital audio-book thing. I love the library!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyway the first half of the book went smoothly for me, i was engrossed in the plot and taken in by the gimmicky premise. and Eco's language (well, in translation) can be lovely. but the abundant literary allusions....what can i say, got on my fucking nerves. and after a while, the amnesia dude's search for his past (that could just as easily have been told to him, for the most part) starts to seem really self-obsessed and obnoxious. he's all, then i picked up THIS tiny little object, and here's seven hundred details about my feelings about it, and then i picked up THAT tiny little ojbect, and here are seven million details about my feelings about every association i have with it, etc. etc.
So. i am taking a break from this book, because i think the narrator is a big fucking baby, and i resent his apparently abundant leisure time.
Listening to this on another digital audio-book thing. I love the library!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyway the first half of the book went smoothly for me, i was engrossed in the plot and taken in by the gimmicky premise. and Eco's language (well, in translation) can be lovely. but the abundant literary allusions....what can i say, got on my fucking nerves. and after a while, the amnesia dude's search for his past (that could just as easily have been told to him, for the most part) starts to seem really self-obsessed and obnoxious. he's all, then i picked up THIS tiny little object, and here's seven hundred details about my feelings about it, and then i picked up THAT tiny little ojbect, and here are seven million details about my feelings about every association i have with it, etc. etc.
So. i am taking a break from this book, because i think the narrator is a big fucking baby, and i resent his apparently abundant leisure time.
